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Crossover with swaybar?

midnitewarya

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Crossover with swaybar on a K5?

I've read that many have attempted or contemplated it, but I've never seen it done?

Anyone have a success story?
 
Someone on here was just posting about it with there ord 4 link setup up front.

It was suggested that the bar be mounted on the axle to clear steering.

Pretty sweet idea actually.
 
I bought a Suburban with both crossover and a stock sway bar, was on a 6 inch ruogh country lift and had ORD disconnects. I never wheeled it, but the sway bar cleared the steering on the street. There was no way to effectively use the disconnects, as the crossover draglink threaded through the sway bar arms. Worked as long as mall crawling is what you are into.
 
I think it can be done. I found a pic of a truck running it but no close up shots of it. I want to do it to a rolling chassis I plan to build some day. Just have to look for the right parts to make it work. Parts like the correct crossover steering arm, pitman arm, and sway bar drop brackets.

From what I saw on the pics of the truck running it, it was simply a standard crossover setup but using the tall steering arm from Off Road Unlimited which raises the drag link at the passenger side up higher and it does this without using a lift block. The pitman arm was the standard Superlift 1104 arm even though it was compatible for the 6" lift on that particular truck. The drag link was operating at a higher angle than most trucks here run with arms from like ORD, etc.

The clearance over the sway bar was simply leaving the bar bolted at the stock location on the u-bolt plates and then lowering the front bushing mounts with drop brackets under the frame. Sway bars work best at the closest to stock angle as possible so the forward part of the sway bar was lowered drastically with some beefy brackets. With the bar lowered like this the drag link had ample room above the sway bar to move left and right while the ORU steering arm did its job of keeping the drag link over the sway bar.

Simple enough.
 
I think it can be done. I found a pic of a truck running it but no close up shots of it. I want to do it to a rolling chassis I plan to build some day. Just have to look for the right parts to make it work. Parts like the correct crossover steering arm, pitman arm, and sway bar drop brackets.

From what I saw on the pics of the truck running it, it was simply a standard crossover setup but using the tall steering arm from Off Road Unlimited which raises the drag link at the passenger side up higher and it does this without using a lift block. The pitman arm was the standard Superlift 1104 arm even though it was compatible for the 6" lift on that particular truck. The drag link was operating at a higher angle than most trucks here run with arms from like ORD, etc.

The clearance over the sway bar was simply leaving the bar bolted at the stock location on the u-bolt plates and then lowering the front bushing mounts with drop brackets under the frame. Sway bars work best at the closest to stock angle as possible so the forward part of the sway bar was lowered drastically with some beefy brackets. With the bar lowered like this the drag link had ample room above the sway bar to move left and right while the ORU steering arm did its job of keeping the drag link over the sway bar.

Simple enough.
Awesome! I've been running without it for about 10 years. It's almost time to pass the truck down to my son, who will be learning to drive next year. I've been making quite an effort to get the truck ready to be on the highway, safer for the kid to drive. I feel a lot better knowing there is a sway bar on there. I've already brought it down from 6" to 4", and from 35s to 33s. That's already made a huge difference in drivability.
 
Stiffer shocks help too.

When I had my rough country shocks on mine with my soft springs, it was all over. I put my fox shocks on and its super stable.
 
Awesome! I've been running without it for about 10 years. It's almost time to pass the truck down to my son, who will be learning to drive next year. I've been making quite an effort to get the truck ready to be on the highway, safer for the kid to drive. I feel a lot better knowing there is a sway bar on there. I've already brought it down from 6" to 4", and from 35s to 33s. That's already made a huge difference in drivability.
Here's a pic of the ORU steering arm:

raisedsteeringarml.jpg

Notice the height of it and how it will raise the drag link up high over the sway bar. Just keep the bar at the stock location on the u-bolt plates and then lower the front of the bar at the frame end. Lower it down enough so its resting like a stock unmodified truck and enough to clear the leaf springs so they don't bind.
 
I found the pic of the truck with this setup. Right click and save as so you can blow it up to view it better...

4WOR.jpg

I was wrong about the lift on this one. Couldn't remember for sure but now after seeing it and remembering it was in a magazine it was around 8" lift.
 
pretty sure that's zcarczars truck. 8" spring and I think it had a riser block under the RH arm with the big drop brackets for the front of the bar. Don't think it was disconnect-able but worked for a street truck.
 
pretty sure that's zcarczars truck. 8" spring and I think it had a riser block under the RH arm with the big drop brackets for the front of the bar. Don't think it was disconnect-able but worked for a street truck.
Now you mention the username, you're correct. It came back to me that's who owns it now. I remember PM'ing back and forth with him and how he came across the truck. Originally it was owned and built buy a guy in California who worked for 4 Wheel Parts Wholesalers along beside former employee Maurice Rozo whom owns Off Road Unlimited. This truck was featured as an article in 4WOR magazine. I still have the issue today. I think the owner/builder was a Brent Riley who also worked at 4WPW. But I could be wrong on that name as I also seem to think of a Brent Ross. I'd have to dig out the magazine to read up on it.
 
If you get lift springs designed by a certain guy in Carbondale, CO, you would notice a difference without a sway bar!
 

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